Ozzy Osbourne recently got Zakk Wylde back on guitar for his live performances, which made everyone fairly hopeful that he'd do another album. Unfortunately Ozzy has taken a look at the record industry in 2017 and isn't quite convinced that doing another album is the best financial decision for him right now.
Ozzy tells Rolling Stone he feels like no matter how you present music in a physical medium to the masses anymore, nobody really cares. He also puts down music made on laptops a little bit as well, and even discusses a bit on the availability of digital music.
“Live, good rock music is not dead. But I think the record industry is really suffering now. There are only about two fucking record companies left. And when I went to the Grammys a couple of years ago, there’d be artists who’d go from a fucking laptop straight to the charts and release a record.
It’s really a sad thing for me. … It’s just changed so much. I said to Sharon, “It’s like when vaudeville ended and fucking modern music began. We’re the history now.” And no matter what gimmick – what color album, vinyl, whatever, the fact of the matter is people don’t want it. Why should people buy records when they can download it. You can get anything now online. And at the same time, I don’t know how to turn the fucking light on the monitor.”
He added about the possibility of doing another album right now is just wasting money.
“I would like to do another record. But it’s wasting money. Nobody’s buying. You don’t have to sell that many records anymore to get a Number One. Depending how many records you’ve sold. You can have 30 or 40 [laughs]. Nobody buys them.”
Well, at least we've got the classics, right?
